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...known on the register, attended the school 50 years ago the Harrow community did not entirely approve of him. Some of the masters and the more model boys felt that he was scarcely the son of his father", Lord Randolph Churchill, then at the peak of his Parliamentary career. Young Churchill was careless with the school's traditions, which have the flexibility of the Swiss Alps. His marks were only middling and he disliked the classics, then the sine qua non of Harrovian scholarship...
...Peak Egg, an egg substitute, the London Daily Mirror's acidulous Columnist Cassandra wrote: "No hen ever laid egg or eyes on Peak Egg. . . . Take eight ounces of ordinary flour and two ounces of bicarbonate of soda, add a little dye and just a trace of gum. Mix well . . . relax and wait for the great unending public of British suckers...
...marked Harper's peak. In 1925, with circulation down to 75,000, it changed format, dropped illustrations, printed less fiction, more articles dealing with ideas, trends, U.S. mores. Now its circulation is 106,800 and Editor Allen sees no reason "why a magazine with the general purposes and standards of Harper's shouldn't have a circulation of 15,000 or 300,000, depending on how interesting...
Starting from this base at 4200 feet, Howle Oedel '43 led the climbers on the holiday morning through thick clouds and a gale of wind to the second highest peak in the Presidential Range. On the summit there was already six to eight inches of snow. Only in the afternoon as the hikers started down, did the sun break through and the clouds lift to give a view of the range and a bit of saving warmth to the tired trippers...
...Parliament last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood announced that Britain was spending ?13,000,000 ($52,000,000) a day (or $2,166,666 every hour) on World War II. This was 50% greater than the peak spending of World...